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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
331.7 PRE
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331.7 PRE
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"An urgent report from the front lines of "dirty work"-the work that society considers essential but morally compromised"--
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT 929.2 KEE
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LARGE PRINT 929.2 KEE
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"The Sackler name has adorned the walls of many storied institutions -- Harvard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Oxford, the Louvre. They are one of the richest families in the world, known for their lavish donations to the arts and the sciences. The source of the family fortune was vague, however, until it emerged that the Sacklers were responsible for making and marketing a blockbuster painkiller, OxyContin, that was the catalyst for the opioid...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Biography
B HENDERSON
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B HENDERSON
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"A turbulent romance meets harrowing medical mystery: the true story of the author's twenty-year marriage defined by her husband's chronic illness-and a testament to the endurance of love. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store-older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality. Escaping the clichés of fleeting young love, their summer romance bloomed into a relationship that survived college...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
128 PAU
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128 PAU
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"A bold new book that proves our bodies and surroundings know more than our brains do"--
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
363.46 PRA
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363.46 PRA
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Reports on the Supreme Court's most divisive case, Roe v. Wade, and the unknown lives at its heart.
26) Festival days
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A collection that includes seven essays and two pieces of short fiction captures both the small moments of daily existence and times when life and death hang in the balance, including the title work about a searing journey through India.
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In the eighteenth century, on discovering her husband has been murdered, an Irish noblewoman drinks handfuls of his blood and composes an extraordinary lament that reaches across centuries to the young Doireann Ní Ghríofa, whose fascination with it is later rekindled when she narrowly avoids fatal tragedy in her own life and becomes obsessed with learning everything she can about the poem Peter Levi has famously called "the greatest poem written...
28) Harlem shuffle
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Harlem trilogy (Colson Whitehead) volume 1
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC WHITEHEAD
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FIC WHITEHEAD
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
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AUDIO BOOK FIC WHITEHEAD
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC WHITEHEAD
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LARGE PRINT FIC WHITEHEAD
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""Ray Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked ..." To his customers and neighbors on 125th street, Carney is an upstanding salesman of reasonably-priced furniture, making a life for himself and his family. He and his wife Elizabeth are expecting their second child, and if her parents on Striver's Row don't approve of him or their cramped apartment across from the subway tracks, it's still home. Few people know he descends from...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC MBUE
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FIC MBUE
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MBUE
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AUDIO BOOK FIC MBUE
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC MBUE
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LARGE PRINT FIC MBUE
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"'We should have known the end was near.' So begins Imbolo Mbue's exquisite and devastating novel How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by a large and powerful American oil company. Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean up and financial reparations to the...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
973.0496 SMI
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973.0496 SMI
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AUDIO BOOK 973.0496 SMI
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AUDIO BOOK 973.0496 SMI
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT 973.0496 SMI
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LARGE PRINT 973.0496 SMI
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 973.0496 SMI
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AUDIO BOOK 973.0496 SMI
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"'This book is Clint Smith's contemporary portrait of the United States of America as a slave-owning nation. Beginning in his own hometown of New Orleans, Smith leads the reader through an unforgettable tour of monuments and landmarks, those that are honest about the past and those that are not, that offer an intergenerational story of how slavery has been central in shaping our nation's collective history, and ourselves" --
Beginning in his hometown...
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A NEW YORK TIMES TOP 10 BOOK OF 2021
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly
“Intimacies is a haunting, precise,...
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN FICTION
ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE 2021 READS
AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A BEST BOOK OF 2021 FROM Washington Post, Vogue, Time, Oprah Daily, New York Times, Los Angeles Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Atlantic, Kirkus and Entertainment Weekly
“Intimacies is a haunting, precise,...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
305.5692 ELL
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305.5692 ELL
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"Invisible Child follows eight dramatic years in the life of Dasani Coates, a child with an imagination as soaring as the skyscrapers near her Brooklyn homeless shelter. Born at the turn of a new century, Dasani is named for the bottled water that comes to symbolize Brooklyn's gentrification and the shared aspirations of a divided city. As Dasani grows up, moving with her tightknit family from shelter to shelter, her story reaches back to trace the...
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"By the time of his assassination in 1963, John F. Kennedy stood at the helm of the greatest power the world had ever seen, a booming American nation he had steered through some of the most perilous diplomatic standoffs of the Cold War era. Born in 1917 to a striving Irish American family that had ascended the ranks of Boston's labyrinthine political machine, Kennedy was bred for government, and his meteoric rise to become the youngest president ever...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC ISHIGURO
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LARGE PRINT FIC ISHIGURO
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK FIC ISHIGURO
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AUDIO BOOK FIC ISHIGURO
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
973.93 PAC
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973.93 PAC
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Audiobooks
AUDIO BOOK 973.93 PAC
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AUDIO BOOK 973.93 PAC
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A National Book Award-winning author examines America's current descent into a failed state and discusses the ways we can leverage this moment to forge a new path forward that overcomes injustice, legislative paralysis, and political divides.
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
813.54 DID
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813.54 DID
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT 813.54 DID
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LARGE PRINT 813.54 DID
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"From the universally acclaimed, best-selling author of the National Book Award-winning The Year of Magical Thinking: ten pieces never before collected that offer an illuminating glimpse into the mind and process of a legendary writer. Here are six pieces written in 1968 from the "Points West" Saturday Evening Post column Joan Didion shared from 1964 to 1969 with her husband, John Gregory Dunne about: American newspapers; a session with Gamblers Anonymous;...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Nonfiction
362.1969792 SCH
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362.1969792 SCH
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Based on more than two hundred interviews with ACT UP members and rich with lessons for today's activists, Let the Record Show is a revelatory exploration--and long-overdue reassessment--of the coalition's inner workings, conflicts, achievements, and ultimate fracture. Schulman, one of the most revered queer writers and thinkers of her generation, explores the how and the why, examining, with her characteristic rigor and bite, how a group of desperate...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Large Print
LARGE PRINT FIC GREENIDGE
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LARGE PRINT FIC GREENIDGE
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"Coming of age as a free-born Black girl in Reconstruction-era Brooklyn, Libertie Sampson is all too aware that her mother, a physician, has a vision for their future together: Libertie will go to medical school and practice alongside her. But Libertie feels stifled by her mother's choices and is constantly reminded that, unlike her mother, Libertie has skin that is too dark. When a young man from Haiti proposes to Libertie and promises she will be...
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St. Charles Public Library District - Adult Fiction
FIC DAVIES
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FIC DAVIES
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"A heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice, from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The Fortunes"--
A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-- and questions that reverberate down the years. A couple faces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate...
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"We all assume we know what life is, but the more scientists learn about the living world--from protocells to brains, from zygotes to pandemic viruses--the harder they find it is to locate life's edge"--